Stripe is great for payments, but they don’t make usage data super useful for data purposes — their primary use case is payments.

If you want access to your data for other business purposes - stakeholder data, embedded dashboards, alerts and notifications about usage, etc - then you’ll want a system more purpose-built for usage data than Stripe.

Check out https://kable.io. Kable is purpose built as a data and billing solution, where your data is available for purposes ancillary to payments.

[Disclaimer: I am a Kable founder, but what you’re describing is precisely what we’re built for. If you’d like to chat, either about Kable or about your design in general to build this in-house, I’d be happy to.]

You could (I would) but you could care a lot less about it and treat it mostly as a log to use for reconciliation later if there's an issue or if you want to migrate to a different billing system.

The data is going to still be available in Stripe to download later if you need the raw events (or just the summaries from the invoices).